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It will be impossible for any but the most elite and wealthy universities to comply with race-blind admissions.
It's now open season to sue college admission offices and bilk them of everything you can. All you have to show is that there is a racial bias in their admissions, which you can define any way they want. Disproportionate representation from the population? Racial bias. Disproportionate representation compared to applications? Racial bias. Perfectly proportional representation according to some population statistic? Clearly affirmative action, since only through AA could you get your representation so proportional.
Think a university can be race-blind to avoid this? Nope. If the representation isn't perfectly proportional (and again, by what standard?) that shows inherent bias. So they'll have to collect race information and then compare that to their admission standards to CHECK That their process is suitably race-blind. Which means it isn't race blind. Which means it is AA or some shit.
And only wealthy universities have admissions departments large and staffed sufficiently to do this. Smaller and public universities will just be bulldozed.
Everyone will have totally different standards about what is fair and powerful, rich, likely racially advantaged/majority groups will sue like fuck to exploit their advantage while racially disadvantaged/minority groups do not have the means to do the same. The de facto outcome will end up discrimination.
The old system was the equivalent of admitting and acknowledging your bias and being transparent about your process and motivations. It directly made use of race as a factor to specifically target and avoid discrimination. The new system mandates that institutional and systemic discrimination be propped up and protected.